Dec. 19, 2024 — A new role has been uncovered for a cell's own RNA in fending off attacks by RNA viruses. Some of the cell's RNA molecules, researchers found, help regulate antiviral signaling ...

Born into hardship, Simon grew up in an informal settlement outside Kimberley with his mother, a domestic worker who had ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution indicates that while the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has collected annual data on areas of coca cultivation in South America for decades ...

Scientists from the Kavli Institute of Delft University of Technology and the IMP Vienna Biocenter have discovered a new property of the molecular motors that shape our chromosomes. While six ...

Advances in cell and molecular biology have catapulted our understanding of the science of life from the basic understanding of how cells and the components of cells interact within living organisms.

In the early days of molecular biology, the universality of the genetic code prompted the Nobel Prize-winning biologist Jaques Monod to proclaim, "What is true for phage lambda is true for the ...

Breakthroughs in synthetic biology could create mirror versions of natural molecules, with devastating consequences for life ...